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Dear Family and/or Friends and/or Random Acquaintances and/or Twitter Followers and/or Random Strangers: Please stop asking me my opinion about Roger Ebert’s post about videogames and wether they (have, do, or will ever) constitute “art”. I understand given my occupation, hobbies, educational background, and unabashed love of pedantic petty argument that I would be a […]

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Content has, indeed, been pretty light lately – mostly because what’s been occupying my time for the last couple months doesn’t really lend itself to discussion. If you think comic writers and artists get frustrated when wanting to discuss work with months of lead time, imagine my frustration when there’s a chance some of the […]

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Professor Christopher Ferguson, writing for the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling confirms what many of us have suspected all along: despite decades of data there no significant link between playing violent videogames and school shootings. There is also no significant link between being an altar boy and school shootings, bowling and school shootings […]

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A completely captivating story about the president-elect and his first family on the eve of his historic inauguration. Intrigue! Mistyque! Secret service agents “as big as boulders”! Missing Nintendo DS(es)! Leapfrog! Iraqi policy debate! Not only is the story entirely charming, but anyone with kids (or who has spent any time with kids) tasked with […]

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I don’t have a lot of insightful, funny, lengthy stuff to post, but rather a bunch of odds and ends that don’t lend themselves to lengthy discourse… hence – fear my braindump: Digital 21 gun salute for both Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban. Both spent a lot of time on islands. Both had unsucessful experiments […]

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I may never be as clever or as popular as Tim Schaefer. I may never be a suave video game designer, with my own crack team of geniuses working on some of the most critically lauded videogames of all time. But at least my house doesn’t smell like cat-pee covered consumer electronics. Also, Tim now […]

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